Divall Dance Quotes & Sayings

Everything, alas, is an abyss, - actions, desires, dreams, words! — Charles Baudelaire

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude ... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. — Ronald Blythe

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. — Pat Buchanan

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever. — Dee Dee Myers

I couldn't bring myself to call him either "Bill," which would signal friendly familiarity, or "Doctor Vogel," which would imply respect. — Frankie Bow

The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by Christ. He did not come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All the dancing and feasting and processing and singing and building and sculpting and baking and merrymaking that belong to us, and that were stolen away into the service of false gods, are returned to us in the gospel. — Thomas Howard

Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly. — Victor Manuel Rivera

I know that most men - not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever, and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic problems - can very seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as to oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty - conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives. — Leo Tolstoy

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon. — Rosa Campbell Praed

Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly. — Bryant McGill

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character. — John Wimber

We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm. — Amitav Ghosh